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Attorneys have clients, but it's not the same thing... or, at least, it's not supposed to be. Attorneys can lose clients and some amount of income, but no clien
by michaelochurch 13y ago
Attorneys have clients, but it's not the same thing... or, at least, it's not supposed to be. Attorneys can lose clients and some amount of income, but no client is supposed to have career-wrecking managerial power over an attorney.
Even for in-house corporate attorneys, their managers are other attorneys, all the way up to the general counsel, who answers to the board (not the CEO) itself; the board is the GC's client.
Of course, if you manage your client list badly and end up dependent on one client, you essentially have a boss. In theory, it's not supposed to be that way; in practice, obviously it can be. But the aspiration (lawyers answer only to their own) is noble.
- inhousecounsel 13y agowhat in the shit are you talking about? buddy, you are way out of your league. lawyers are subject to all the exact same pressures as engineers, except the barriers to entry for becoming an attorney are far, far lower than to becoming a software engineer. as a result, the odds of your lawyer-boss being more of a dumb-ass than your engineer-boss are really high. and no, in house counsel does not report to other lawyers - that is the whole bloody point. individual clients routinely ruin the careers of attorneys. the idea that lawyers answer only to their own is as naive as the idea that technologists have 'lost' their profession. technologists, if you haven't noticed, are running the world. if you hate your current company, find a new one or start your own. stop blaming the industry.